Garage house

{{Infobox music genre

| name = Garage house

| other_names = * Garage

Garage music
New York house
New Jersey sound
New Jersey house

| stylistic_origins = {{hlist|Disco|electronic|house|soul|R&B|gospel}}

| cultural_origins = 1985,{{cite web |title=Gwen Guthrie – Padlock (Cassette) |url=https://www.discogs.com/Gwen-Guthrie-Padlock/release/2950290 |website=Discogs |date=1985 |access-date=28 March 2021 |language=en}} New York City and Newark, New Jersey, United States

| instruments = {{hlist|Turntables|synthesizer|drum machine|sequencer|keyboards|vocals}}

| popularity =

| derivatives = {{hlist|UK garage|speed garage}}

| subgenrelist =

| subgenres =

| fusiongenres = Italo house

| regional_scenes =

| local_scenes =

| other_topics = {{hlist|New Jersey sound|post-disco|Salsoul Records|deep house|acid jazz|Prelude Records|NYC and Newark music}}

}}

Garage house (originally known as "garage";{{cite book|last=Richler|first=Howard|title=A Bawdy Language: How a Second-rate Language Slept Its Way to the Top|url=https://archive.org/details/bawdylanguagehow0000rich|url-access=registration|year=1999|publisher=Stoddart|isbn=978-0-7737-3186-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/bawdylanguagehow0000rich/page/22 22]}} local terms include "New York house"{{cite book|last=Earl|first=David|title=LMMS: A Complete Guide to Dance Music Production Beginner's Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jZM2kq_IK6QC|year=2012|publisher=Packt Publishing Ltd|isbn=978-1-84951-705-8}} and New Jersey sound) is a dance music style that was developed alongside Chicago house music.{{Cite book|title=House Music: The Real Story|last=Saunders|first=Jesse|page=118|isbn=9781604740011|date=Nov 1, 2007|publisher=SandlerComm|quote="However, New York did not truly develop a recognized House music scene of its own until 1988 with the success of DJ Todd Terry—not until then did they understand what House music truly was all about. They did, though, have Garage. }} The genre was popular in the 1980s in the United States and the 1990s in the United Kingdom, where it developed into UK garage and speed garage.

Characteristics

In comparison to other forms of house music, garage includes more gospel-influenced piano riffs and female vocals. It has a more soulful R&B-derived sound than Chicago house.{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/subgenre/garage-ma0000012308|title=Garage at Allmusic|publisher=Rovi Corporation|access-date=2011-08-27}}

History

Garage house was developed in the Paradise Garage nightclub in New York City and Club Zanzibar in Newark, New Jersey, United States, during the early-to-mid 1980s. There was much overlap between it and early house music, making it difficult to tell the two apart.{{cite book|first= Paul| last= Simpson| year= 2003| title= The rough guide to cult pop|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F7hpXcrqA-8C| publisher= Rough Guides, 2003| location= U.S.| isbn= 1843532298| page= 42}} It predates the development of Chicago house, and according to All Music, is relatively closer to disco than other dance styles. As Chicago house gained international popularity, New York's garage music scene was distinguished from the "house" umbrella.

Dance music of the 1980s made use of electronic instruments such as synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines. These instruments are an essential part of garage music.{{cite book

| first= Anne De Bruin

| last= Ann Dupuis

| year= 2003

| title= Entrepreneurship: new perspectives in a global age

| publisher= Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2003

| location= U.S.

| isbn= 0754631982

| page= 79}} The direction of garage music was primarily influenced by the New York City discothèque Paradise Garage where the influential DJ Larry Levan,{{cite book| first= Robin| last= Sylvan| year= 2002| title= Traces of the spirit: the religious dimensions of popular music| publisher= NYU Press| location= U.S.| isbn= 0814798098| page= 120}} known for his musical versatility and innovation, played records.

According to Blues & Soul, contemporary garage music started with Boyd Jarvis and Levan's The Peech Boys.{{cite journal|journal=Blues & Soul |issue=526–537|year=1988|title= untitled |publisher=Napfield Ltd., the University of Virginia '(originally)'|quote=[...] term as garage music now started about five years ago with the first Boyd Jarvis records and the group Visual who did the songs "Somehow, Someway" and "The Music Got Me"}} Jarvis, using the Visual moniker, was behind 1983 recordings "Somehow, Someway" {{small|(Prelude Records – PRL D 650)}} and "The Music Got Me" {{small|(Prelude Records – PRL D 650)}}, the latter especially influential, which later was sampled by mainstream house music record producers Robert Clivillés and David Cole of C+C Music Factory.Jarvis v. A & M Records 827 F. Supp. 282 (D.N.J. 1993) [http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/1990-1999/Pages/jarvisamrecords.aspx#top UCLA] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415154706/http://cip.law.ucla.edu/cases/1990-1999/Pages/jarvisamrecords.aspx#top#top |date=2012-04-15 }}{{cite book

| first= (West Publishing Company)

| last= Anonymous

| year= 1993

| title= West's federal supplement

| publisher= West Pub. Co., 1993, West Publishing Company

| location= U.S.

| page= 299}}

The popularity of the genre in the UK gave birth to a derivative genre called UK garage.{{cite book

| first= Tony

| last= Verderosa

| year= 2002

| title= The techno primer: the essential reference for loop-based music styles